Not really, a transient ipfs node works just fine. There are stable nodes to bootstrap a new node into the network. More initialization that if you were using

Not really, a transient ipfs node works just fine. There are stable nodes to bootstrap a new node into the network. More initialization that if you were using http, sure, but it isn’t as against the grain as you suggest. https://github.com/ipfs/ipget https://github.com/ipfs/ipget